LECTURES BROWN BAG SERIES. Main Public Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. Bring your lunch and listen in on plans for improving the access roads along Interstate 10 in the downtown area from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, August 13. Beverages are provided. Call Beth Hancock at 624-0595 for more information. DESERT CRONES. Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. Children's Meeting Room. The Desert Crones meet at 1 p.m. Saturday, August 10. Lisa Theil, local artist, will teach songs about grandmothers and wisdom. Women age 50 and older are invited to attend. Call Lois at 883-0377 for information. THEN AND NOW. The Arizona Historical Society. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. The Arizona Historical Society presents its summer lecture series, Faces and Spaces: Tucson's Communities Then and Now, at 7 p.m. Wednesday evenings through August 21. On August 14 Carmen Villa Prezelski, member of the U.S.-Mexico Educational Interchange Project, lectures on Barrio Millville: A Memoir from the Recent Past. Cost is $5 per lecture or $30 for the series, with AHS and student discounts available. Call 628-5774 for information. FOSTER A FAMILY. Emmanuel Baptist Church. 1825 N. Alvernon Way. The Foster Home Recruitment and Retention Council presents a lecture for foster and adoptive parents at 7 p.m. Tuesday, August 13. Call 750-0507 for information. MAKE NEW FRIENDS. Columbia El Dorado Hospital. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 721-5109. Get to know what the National Association of Senior Friends is all about at an introduction at 10 a.m. Thursday, August 15, presented by Jim Sondgrass, Seniors Program Advisor. Lecture is free and reservations are required. Call 721-5109 for reservations and information. WHAT REALITY? There is confidence, assurance and esteem in recognizing your own map of reality and discovering how it affects your life. Find out more from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, August 8. Cost is $15. Call the NLP Wellness Center at 325-4138 for reservations and location information. Upcoming PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE. The third annual Arizona/Sonora Professional Women's Conference, entitled Building Partnerships, will be September 19 through 21, 1996, at the PCC West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road. The conference aims to promote partnerships and new intercultural networking relationships to facilitate business, educational and health opportunities. Ann Symington, wife of Arizona Governor Fife Symington, will officially open the conference. Cost is $70, $40 for Mexican participants. Call the PCC Small Business Development and Training Center at 748-4906 for registration and information. WOMEN ON THE MOVE. The YWCA presents the eighth annual Women's Leadership Conference from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, October 4, 1996, at the Westin La Paloma. Keynote speakers are author Debra Benton, attorney Sarah Weddington and Sheila Wellington, president of Catalyst, the premier national non-profit research and advisory organization on women's private sector leadership. Cost is $80 and includes breakfast and lunch. Call the YWCA at 884-7810 for registration and information. Registration deadline is October 1.

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